Ryan Neelam is director of the Public Opinion and Foreign Policy Program at the Lowy Institute, an international policy think tank based in Sydney. Michelle Lyons is a research fellow in the institute's Indo-Pacific Development Centre.
For more than a decade, Australia was a global laggard on climate action. But since the Australian Labor Party's 2022 election victory, Canberra's tone has shifted from reticence, and at times even denial, to ambition.
